State Wide Burn Ban in Wa
All lands that come under state DNR protection now have a burn ban in effect. This includes fires in designated pits and includes campgrounds public and private. We are getting mixed signals about...
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Pangaea Ron wrote:Roy&Lynne wrote:J herb wrote:
How about giving the firefighters a break and not have a fire, I wish that they would close it all down until we get some rain. I would rather see the forest green than black, you can have a fire when the weather is right.
This ALL ABOUT ME stuff is crap, you have a campfire that may start a fire than you go home and complain that the woods are on fire and it is so smoky that we couldn't stand it.
Thank you. I agree. While I live on the West side of the fires my heart aches for what is happening both here in Washington and in Southern California. Oregon is also a tinderbox right now and everyone is holding their breaths that nothing will happen.
I'd rather have "overkill".
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We made the 911 call in a national forest campground the day folks left after their Memorial Day weekend. The campers didn't put out their fire completely, the wind picked up and blew sparks onto pine needles and immediately the fire took off through the campground. Firefighters came and it took 6 hours to put the fire out and the campground was closed for a month, along with the surrounding campgrounds.
A fire is extinguished when you can put your hand inside the ashes!!!
